For what it's worth look into sheet lead for a sound deadening underlayment in the saloon.
Sent from my 5S thigh bone > On Apr 28, 2014, at 9:23 AM, "Harris Bob" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > Carpeting is dead simple. Cutting around the hatches wasn’t difficult (ended > up stapling under the edges). > > The aft cabin stairs was probably the hardest part – you may need a little > practice hiding the staples… > > Just don’t do the one really STUPID thing that a newbie like me did…I pulled > the old carpet out and used it as a pattern for the new carpet, but since I > was cutting it, I placed the two faces together. I ended up with a mirror > image of the pattern! > > You can staple it or use the tack strips…both work. If you want to stretch, > you can rent a knee-kicker for about $10. > > I used standard underpad, but if I were to do again, I would upgrade to the > high quality underpad. > > We have a had a couple of floods where the Vacuflush stuck and flooded the > aft cabin…you can only get a carpet soaking wet so many times before it falls > apart (unless you get marine or indoor/outdoor carpet. > > I paid a guy to work with me, and let him do the hatch covers, etc. Again, if > I were to do it now, I would do the job myself. > > Good luck > > Bob Harris > > 36 DC Sentient Wave > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Bob S > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 9:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [UnifliteWorld] Re-carpeting? > > I have a 1973 42' aft cabin which I am in the process of upgrading. We have > owned the boat for 16 years and my wife disliked the carpet from the start. > (off white twist pile carpet) I did tear out the carpeting from the kitchen > forward and installed engineered flooring which is working great with throw > rugs. I now want to re-carpet the main salon and aft cabin. As you know there > are two large engine hatches in the salon and several bilge access ports in > the aft cabin. I really want to do this myself if possible. We want to use a > high quality pile carpet and not anything easy like carpet tiles etc. > 1. Think I can do this? The carpet would be cut into many smaller sections. > Nothing needing severe stretching. > 2. How would you affix the carpet? I think it currently is stapled to the > plywood decking without a pad with tack strips along the edges. > 3. Use a pad? If so what type? > 4. What type of carpet and pad? > > OR hire an expert.....but who? > > Thanks > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "UnifliteWorld" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > This message and any attachments are solely for the use of the intended > recipients. They may contain privileged and/or confidential information or > other information protected from disclosure. If you are not an intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that you received this email in error and > that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this email and any > attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, > please contact the sender and delete the message and any attachment from your > system. > > Thank You. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "UnifliteWorld" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
